TO the array of honorofics, titles and awards expected to be amassed by Derek Jeter by the time his major league career is over, add one more: Mr. November.

The month was brand new when Jeter seized the first – and hopefully, last – awarding of the title in the bottom of the 10th inning last night when he hit Byung-Hyun Kim’s 3-2 pitch into the lower right field seats.

Just like that, the month changed and so did the World Series.

Just like that, a game the Yankees were one out away from losing and a Series they were one loss away from being eliminated from, became a heart-stopping win.

And just like that, a player who had taken most of October off had re-established his credentials in the first-ever baseball game played in November.

Jeter was the MVP of last year’s Subway Series, but this year, he was a candidate only for LVP, or Least Visible Player.

In 15 previous at-bats this World Series, Jeter had managed just one hit, a harmless single in the third inning of Game 3. Even his mother was getting impatient.

“She’s been yelling ‘Do something!’ for four games,” he said.

So, like a dutiful son, he did something.

And with one swing of the bat, all eyes were on Derek Jeter again, and all eyes are on the Yankees, who have improbably, but not for this team, impossibly, drawn even in a Series that was running away from them.

“Surprising things happen in this game,” Joe Torre said, “but after a while, things cease to surprise you, because this ballclub never quits. It’s remarkable to be able to come back like that. It just shows you, you can never quit on this team.”

Or, as Jeter said, “We always feel as if we have a chance to win a game,” moments after his home run gave the Yankees a come-from-behind 4-3 victory.

Up to that moment, the Yankees might have been the only ones to feel that way.

With two out in the bottom of the ninth, the Arizona Diamondbacks needed just one more out to push the Yankees to the brink of elimination in a World Series for the first time in four years.

The air had gone out of the sellout Yankee Stadium crowd. Even the bleacher people seemed to have run out of enthusiasm and invective.

And then Tino Martinez, the target of trade rumors for most of the season and the sole source of Yankee power for much of the second half, crushed the first pitch he saw from Kim over the centerfield fence with Paul O’Neill on first to tie the game at 3.

At that point, the game was won everywhere but on the scoreboard for the Yankees, who had Mo Rivera ready to pitch the top of the 10th inning and Mo Mentum batting for them in the bottom.

Enter Jeter, who had single-handedly kept the Yankees’ post-season alive with his jaw-dropping shovel pass to Jorge Posada to save Mike Mussina’s 1-0, series-turning win in Game 3 of the ALDS versus Oakland.

But he cooled off steadily thereafter and after tumbling into the photographer’s box in Game 5 of the ALCS against Seattle, had practically disappeared.

Coming to the plate in the 10th, Jeter had managed just one hit in 15 World Series at-bats.

Jeter took two sliders for strikes, then worked the count full. The next slider came in fat and went out fast, curling just inside the right-field foul pole.

And this 27-year-old, who has four World Series rings to show for five big-league seasons, was so excited he leaped onto home plate with both feet. “I think I broke my foot doing it,” he said.

More likely, he broke the Diamondbacks.

“Obviously, it’s a huge boost for us,” he said. “I mean, going down 3-1, that’s a pretty deep hole for us. But this win means absolutely nothing unless we come out and play well tonight.”

Yesterday, the month, and the Series, were just about over. But today is a new month and a new Series. And Mr. November is just getting started.